The Avanta SCS Special Cargo System (AV SC-03) It is a special cargo aircraft designed in 1974 derived from the Avanta RPLH, of which 3 aircraft were modified, this being the third The aircraft was.

Designed with the purpose of more easily transporting the main fuselage and wings of the Avanta Av-46 to the aircraft production plant.

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When the first modification was tested, it did not have enough force in the engines to carry the 10 tons of the Av-46 fuselage, so the plane was equipped with two Frans & Jhon FJ-546/Rf engines of 30000N of force and thus be able to lift the plane.

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The Avanta SCS Special Cargo System (AV SC-03) has a hollow "hump" 2 meters high, 3 meters wide and 10 meters long that perfectly accommodates the Av-46 fuselage.

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The RPLH needed to be seriously modified adding its characteristic "hump", cutting the rear part of the fuselage to be able to install and adapt a door adapted to the fuselage and the "hump", the seat of the flight engineer was removed, instead a computer was put in place to replace the task of the flight engineer.
The equipment was modernized, digital displays and a new GDS DG/43-5 M radar with a 16.2km range were added.

|--- Technical Data: ---|

• Engines:
  
  
  
  1. 2x Avanta gfh:54/56 piston engine with counter-rotating blades
  
  
  2. 2x Frans & Jhon FJ-546/Rf jet engines of 30000N each
  
  
• Radar type: GDS DG/43-5 M
• range: 16.2km
• fuel capacity: 11714L

|--- General characteristics: ---|

• Maximum speed: 500km/h approx.
• Minimum takeoff speed: 196 km/h
• Cruising speed: 400km/h
• Service ceiling: 7.8km

|--- Activation groups: ---|

• AG1: piston engine 1
• AG2: piston engine 2
• AG3: jet engine 1
• AG4: jet engine 2
• AG5: cargo bay door
• AG6: Navigation lights
• AG8: Anti-collision lights

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